Paralytic - Sylvia Plath
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Drum of my sleeping couch
Photographs visit me-
My wife, dead and flat, in 1920 furs,
Mouth full of pearls,
Two girls
As flat as she, who whisper "We're your daughters."
The still waters
Wrap my lips,
Eyes, nose and ears,
A clear
Cellophane I cannot crack.
On my bare back
I s .....
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PYGMALION
.... taxi-man, she appears significantly defensive in her response concerning the cost of the cab ride. Eliza feels humiliated by the taxi-man’s sarcastic response to her. From the start of Higgins and Eliza’s relationship, Eliza is treated like a child. Higgins says to her, “If your naughty and idle you will sleep in the back kitchen among the black beetles, and be walloped by Mrs. Pearce with a broomstick.” (p. 36) Higgins treats her like this for months until the audience meets her again in London society .....
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Pragmatics Deixis And Conversa
.... or even impossible, mostly when we only get chunks of information and therefore lack context. If, for example, a person tells a story and forgets to give the essential information a deictic term refers to, we will grow aware of the weakness the deictic system features. Or if the fax machine just receives the second page of a letter, beginning with "Then he was quite embarrassed about it " - the adressee will never be able to guess what "then", "he" and "it" stands for. Similar gaps arise if we read .....
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Passage To Manhood - Comparing
.... that it is against David’s morals to kill the animal of such beauty but if such a task has to be completed to gain manhood then so be it. Much to his dismay he shot the possum and in his own mind was a murderer but in the eyes of his father he would be a man. When looking for the dead possum the next morning his father greets him by saying, “What’ve you lost old man?” and this shows the reader that David has now become a man in his fathers eyes.
By reading “The Altar of the Family” the reader is l .....
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Perseus The God Helped
.... Bobo, the all-knowing owl, to snatch they eye from the Sisters, rendering them blind and helpless. After doing this, he says that he "will only give the ball back if they promise not to eat" him. The protagonist displays imaginative skills in this incident. Here, he shows that he is able to come up with answers to puzzles in a fast and creative way and by using only the few tools his has. The ability to do this is the trait of a great hero. Thus, the protagonist can be given the title of an epic hero. .....
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Plato Vs Shelley
.... Shelley is trying to defend poetry, he is still representing is as an image, just as Plato had. Plato uses this mirror symbol more successfully in that he makes the assertion that that in which is imitated, as is a mirror image, is far from the truth. Shelley only states that the image (poetry) is more beautiful than the truth, which is distorted.
Plato and Shelley both portray their ideas of poetry through rhetorical devices but Plato’s argument is much more solid. Because of his Socratic writing .....
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Lady Macbeth
.... tend on mortal thoughts…”. She evokes evil to commit the deed and loses her identity; I would then argue that if she has lost her identity then she has lost her soul and that, in my opinion, makes her a monster. This is illustrated by her willingness to “…dash the brains out…” of her baby, if she had one. The loss of her feminine qualities exemplifies her knowledge of the consequences of killing Duncan, this is demonstrated when she asks the “…keen knife see not the wound it makes…”. This reveals her h .....
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Literary Theory And African Am
.... the realization that art has no single meaning and overturned the problems with culture and language boundaries that cut away at art’s meaning, worth and truth. Today, the state of mind of the human world is called Post-Modernism, since it is a multi-cultural era. Racial Post-Modernism calls attention to those understandings that are shared across the boundaries of class, gender and race. To take racism seriously, one must consider the plight of the underclass people of color, a vast majority of whom i .....
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Catcher In The Rye
.... about
something, or has manifestations of conformity (Corbett 71). Throughout The Catcher
in the Rye, Holden describes and interacts with various members of his family. The
way he talks about or to each gives you some idea of whether he thinks they are
"phony" or normal. A few of his accounts make it more obvious than others to
discover how he classifies each fa .....
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Catcher In The Rye 4
.... Olivier, that’s all" (pg 117). They would go to the movie and spend the whole time critiquing it and saying what they would and wouldn’t change. The thoughts and memories of D.B. where very uplifting to Holden, and many times throughout the book Holden would of been lost if he had not had those thoughts to fall back on.
Allie was one of the major factors that greatly affected Holden’s thoughts and actions. Allie, even though dead, was still on Holden’s mind and in a way ass .....
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Catcher In The Rye 5
.... people in this book.
He used the term to be what a person is if they don't act naturally and follow other
people's manners and grace. Holden didn't like phonies, he thought of them as if they
were trying to show off. He didn't like it when they showed off because it seemed so fake
and unnatural every time they would do so. "At the end of the first act we went out with
all the other jerks for a cigarette. What a deal that was. You never saw so many phonies
in all your life, everybody smoking th .....
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Small Pox
.... skin, suffered from a less severe form of the disease than those who contracted it through the respiratory tract. In the early 1700’s doctors began to store samples of smallpox pus and scabs in jars. If an outbreak occurred the doctor would make a small cut in a person’s arm and smeared the pus into the wound. This process of intentionally infecting a person with the smallpox virus in order to make them immune to the disease in the future was called inoculation. The danger of this treatment was that .....
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Canterbury Tales Wife Of Bath
.... her husband, and
their household and very specifically, "...not he". This can be
interpretated that her husband will not have the same privileges as
her in the sense that he is like a 'slave' and she will 'command' over
him.. This quotation seems as if the Wife of Bath is leaning toward
the feministic opinion.
"Nevertheless, since I know your pleasure I'll satisfy your
physical pleasure." This was said by the Wife of Bath and supports
the non-fe .....
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Character Sketch For Shiloh
.... emptiness
because of his death.
In the beginning of the story Norma Jean tries to conceal the emptiness that she
has felt for so many years. Mason first presents her as a strong character by explaining
how she works out and would like to become stronger. She may become stronger
physically, but nothing can overcome the emptiness which she feels. Norma Jean tries to
help her husband get a job, and she gives him a variety of ideas for this. She does not
enjoy being around him because th .....
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Corruption In Cry The Beloved
.... is Gertrude, the most pathetic character in the book. She has been chewed up and spit out by a city that has no room for good black people. She went off in search of her husband and ended up by herself with “many husband’s” as Msimangu said. Gertrude must also sell illegal liquor and has gone to prison. Her child runs around ragged and dirty in the streets, with no education and no supervision or name. Gertrude is like Abasalom in that she is not corrupt at heart, but it was Johannesburg that turned her .....
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